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Amaterasu Software · 2016 · 67 % positive of 882

24 games that play like A Detective's Novel and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Case of the Golden Idol, Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases and Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • Visual Novel
  • Detective
  • Mystery

At a glance

What games like A Detective's Novel have in common

  • The tags they share most often with A Detective's Novel: Detective (23 of 24), Mystery (22) and Visual Novel (14).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 17 of them after A Detective's Novel (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Case of the Golden Idol (98 % positive of 8,616).

By gameplay

Plays like A Detective's Novel

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Rainswept87 % positive of 282Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Mystery
  2. LumineNight87 % positive of 232Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Mystery
  3. Dahlia View86 % positive of 326Shared: Detective · Mystery
  4. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments89 % positive of 7,191Shared: Detective · Mystery · Indie
  5. Confidential Killings - A Detective Game77 % positive of 811
  6. Methods: The Canada Files95 % positive of 196Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Indie
  7. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes79 % positive of 3,570Shared: Detective · Mystery · Adventure
  8. Overboard!90 % positive of 576Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Mystery
  9. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles94 % positive of 8,158Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Mystery
  10. Tangle Tower95 % positive of 5,243Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Mystery
  11. The Painscreek Killings91 % positive of 5,217Shared: Detective · Mystery · Adventure
  12. Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring60 % positive of 680Shared: Detective · Mystery · Adventure

By look

Looks like A Detective's Novel

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse94 % positive of 2,754
  2. Arcadia Fallen94 % positive of 418
  3. Interrogation: You will be deceived79 % positive of 344
  4. The Charnel House Trilogy80 % positive of 664
  5. The Shivah81 % positive of 831
  6. Connected Hearts - Visual novel89 % positive of 324
  7. Sixtieth Kilometer79 % positive of 1,771
  8. Kill or Love89 % positive of 2,194
  9. Your Dry Delight94 % positive of 697
  10. Aooni The Horror of Blueberry Onsen82 % positive of 191
  11. A Light in the Dark93 % positive of 1,705
  12. Say Goodbye53 % positive of 220

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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